Word: inspects
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Alexander Scott, the globe-trotting secret agent played by Bill Cosby in the 1960s series I Spy, made a return visit to his old top-secret agency a couple of weeks ago. And no one was more surprised than the security guard who had to inspect his outdated photo ID. "Long assignment?" she asked skeptically. "Sick leave," he replied...
...Coop's physical layout seems conducive to stealing. Shoppers can roam freely from department to department without having to pay for the goods they carry. This policy was designed "for the convenience of the customer," says Wagner. "You put goods out so customers can touch them, feel them, inspect them...
...homage, Sartre made Genet an existentialist, the utterly free man, even to the point of insisting that his homosexuality was chosen, which Genet found ridiculous. But Sartre certified Genet to a larger readership in postwar France, which was ready, after the upheavals of war and the German Occupation, to inspect, ever so gingerly, the notions of a self-proclaimed outlaw. In a nation still divided between onetime resistance fighters and onetime collaborators, each of them criminals in the other's eyes, the outsider could be anyone...
Harvard officials permit students to displayholiday lights, provided students inspect thembeforehand for fire risks. Security guardsinterviewed Thursday night said they were not"overly concerned" about the lights as a firehazard...
...unless there is "significant overall progress" with respect to human rights in China. In practice, Christopher told TIME, "I'll look at the trend . . . We don't expect them to remedy all the wrongs . . . Little things like prison visits, whether they permit the Red Cross to go in" to inspect jail conditions could help a great deal. Within 48 hours of Christopher's comment, the Chinese did just that. But then in a letter to Clinton last week, 270 members of the U.S. House of Representatives demanded more -- and Christopher, whose minions had earlier embraced Beijing's move...